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Game Build Execution

Turns an approved game design into a minimal BUILD_BRIEF plus a genuinely runnable whitebox or production candidate with replayable evidence.

Dev & CodingAdvanced★ 696⑂ 101AI score 7/10Last updated: Aug 24, 2026

What it does

  • Reads GAME_DESIGN.md (plus ART_DIRECTION.md once production starts) and compresses it into a minimal build/BUILD_BRIEF.md.
  • Forces an explicit buildStage: whitebox|production and buildPath: template|custom declaration, keeping risk-probing prototypes separate from production builds.
  • Implements the core loop first: boot → real input → state change → outcome → restart, before any presentation layer.
  • Keeps a deterministic rules adjudicator as the only thing allowed to commit resources, position, knowledge, ownership, win/lose and the event log; the model only proposes candidate actions and writes dialogue.
  • Pins content/rules/save versions, initial state, seed and input sequence, and logs events so failures can be replayed instead of re-queried from an online model.
  • Records the real toolchain and install/build/start commands, marking unknowns as NOT_AVAILABLE: reason.
  • In production, exposes one authoritative verification command for game-qa but never writes QA conclusions itself.

Who it's for

  • Teams using the novel-to-game pipeline this skill ships with.
  • Interactive/narrative game developers tired of LLMs silently mutating game state.
  • Designers who want the riskiest design question validated before full production.

Examples

  1. "Whitebox this combat system so we can see whether the real-time feel actually holds up."
  2. "Build the production candidate from the approved GAME_DESIGN and ART_DIRECTION, and give QA one verification command."
  3. "Patch this playtest bug at the node level, then replay the failing path plus adjacent counterexamples."

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game/HEAD/skills/game-build/SKILL.md

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/game-build folder from the GitHub repo zenstory-ai/novel-to-game into my ~/.claude/skills/zenstory-ai-game-build/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r novel-to-game/skills/game-build ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r novel-to-game/skills/game-build ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify the references/ contracts (build-brief-contract.md, playable-model-contract.md, etc.) came along.
  6. Also copy the sibling skills (design, art direction, QA) so the pipeline stays intact.
  7. Restart Claude Code and try: "Prototype the riskiest design question as a whitebox build."
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT